Joel and I have talked quite a bit this holiday season about our traditions and our family. We both want the Christmas season to be filled with lots of wonderful memories for our future kids. One of the most beautiful things I have discovered as I have grown in my faith is that there is a wonderful season called Advent. Now for many of you this is a well-known part of the Church and Christmas, but it has only been a few years since I have even known what this is!
Joel and I have decided to make the Advent season an integral part of the way that we will celebrate.
Combining the wonderful memory of the nativity scene that I grew up with & this beautiful waiting, here is what it will look like in our house in years to come:
These are beautiful Fontanini nativity figures, which I picked specifically because....
There are enough to fill a 25 day Advent calendar (these cute stockings found at Hop Skip Jump). Now usually Advent calendars are filled with candy, a Scripture, etc. Ours will be filled with small 5" figurines.
Each day leading up to the wonderful day of Christmas we will pull out a new person/animal to slowly create our beautiful nativity scene. It will grow every day until....
Jesus comes.
Rediscover Christmas is rediscovering Christ!
Happy Advent friends, lets rejoice in the coming of our dearest friend, the lover of our hearts, the Savior of the world.
Awesome idea, guys!!! I need to do something like this for when Liam is older. We've been going back and forth about what we will do specifically, but I like your idea the best!
ReplyDeleteThanks Laura! It was fun visiting your blog. Glad you liked the idea :)
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